Potato-paper.



No. 67!,525. Patented Apr. 9, I91".

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POTATO PABER.

(Application filed Juns 10, 1900.

(lo Model.)

\ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MONK, OF OOLONIE, NEW YORK.

POTATQ -PARER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 671,525, dated April 9, 1901.

Application filed J H118 1900.

To all whom it may ooncerm Be it known that 1, JOHN MONK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Colonie, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Potato-Parers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top plan view of my improved paring, slicing, and coring device. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the knife-lolade removed. Fig. 3 isasiinilar View of said blade detached. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the device. Fig. 5 is a crosssection of the same, taken on the broken line 5 5 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a similar view taken on the broken line 6 6 in Fig. 4c.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective tool or device for paring and slicing apples, potatoes, and the like, as well as for removing the cores of apples and the eyes and other-imperfections from potatoes.

My improved device comprises the handle 1 and the body 2, formed in an integral casting, and the knife-blade 3, secured to the casting.

The body is of concavo-convex form, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and is gradually tapered toward the end opposite the handle. The body is provided on its inner or concaved side with a seat 4 for the knife-blade, which seat is near the inner end of the handle and adjacent to the elongated slot 5, formed in the body and projecting through its outer conveXed surface.

Serial No. 20,497. (No model.)

The knife-blade may be made of a thin piece of sheet-steel and is preferably secured'to the casting by means of a single pivotal screw connection 6, as shown, whereby the plate can be secured upon the casting at dilferent angles, so that its edge will engage the work obliq uely.

The concavo-conve-X form of the body is extended beyond the outer end of the knife approximately to the attaching-lug '7, so that the knife projects through its slot 5 beyond the outer convexed surface of the casting. It will thus be seen that when the coring end 8 is thrust into an apple or the like and rotated therein the projecting knife-edge will cleanly sever the skin of the apple at the month of the hole and not tear the same, as would the casting without such projecting knife.

The tapered end 8 of the casting is an efiective means for removing eyes of potatoes and other imperfections.

The device is cheaply made and easily assembled.

The knife-plate may be slotted, as at 9, to receive the attaching-screw.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a paring and slicing device the combination with an integral casting comprising a handle and an elongated body having a knifereceiving seat and slot; of a knife-blade seated upon said casting with its edge projecting through said slot; and a pivotal screw connection between said blade and casting whereby they may be secured together at difierent angles, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of June, 1900.

JOHN MONK.

Witnesses:

FRANK (J. CURTIS, E. M. OREILLY. 

